Australian Country

When Greg and Julianne Pulford moved to South Australia’s Clare Valley in 1980, the region was an emerging wine district with maybe 12 wineries and visitors couldn’t buy a cup of coffee on a Sunday for love nor money. These days, there are more than

Just as the rings on a tree reveal much about its past and the conditions it’s lived through, you can read much into the layers of history of a property through its garden developments and house alterations. The homestead and garden at Noojee Lea, th

Kate and Sam Festa aren’t sure where their country calling emanated from, all they know is that they heard and felt it loud and clear. “Neither os us is from a farming background,” Kate says. “Growing up, my family went camping in national parks ever

There’s no such thing as land that can’t be cultivated, according to Jane Phillips … there are merely challenges awaiting a determined gardener. Jane has spent most of her adult life putting this theory to the test and the gardens at the home and hol

By all accounts, John Tothill, one of the founding fathers of the Clare Valley’s wine industry, was a man of vision. Clearly a person of great determination and dedication, Tothill bought an estate close to the village of Auburn from Colonel John Bar

Before the sun shoots its first rays of golden morning light across the crest of the Blackall Ranges, Sally Herniman is quietly slipping on her gardening clogs and padding out the pale pink front door of her cottage to enjoy a sunrise ritual among he

First-time visitors to Darwin, the Northern Territory’s capital, can be forgiven for thinking they’ve fluked the best night of the year. The Mindil Beach Night Markets are a magnet for tourists and locals during the dry season (April to October) and

Retired school teachers John and Lois Willing are probably way too pragmatic to believe in destiny, but it would be hard to imagine there could be better owners for their historic property, Vermont, in the Millthorpe district of central-western NSW.

If you found the transition from primary to high school a bit daunting, spare a thought for Zoe Mavromatis. In 2015, she made the leap from her primary state school in the western Darling Downs town of Chinchilla to boarding at John Paul College in D

When guests enter Montrose House in the historic town centre of Canowindra in central-western NSW, one of the first things they see is a portrait of a debonair man in a kilt. A bit further on, there’s another portrait of a caberet performer in full c